I recently found myself in a conversation with some young people about personal finance. Here are the books, authors, and radio show I mentioned:
The Real Life 101 Handbook, by Mike Duralia
Debt U: How Higher Education Breeds a Lifestyle of Debt, by Logan Abrams
Radio show - Charlotte Talks - where I heard both of these authors interviewed.
Other personal finance references I have found helpful:
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Personal Finance (4th ed.), by Kenneth M. Morris and Virginia B. Morris
This guide is concise and easy to use, a good reference, especially for explaining terms used in financial matters.
Your Money or You Life, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
This book was recommended by the late John Holt years ago, and I purchased it then but have not read it all the way through. It's going to the top of my stack right now.
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I like _Get a Financial Life_, myself. It's geared towards the 20-something crowd, and is well-organized so you can skip to the relevant parts quickly.
It is more focused on the practical nuts-and-bolts, rather than the big-picture "why you should save money", but it answers a lot of questions that a basic practical economics class would answer.
There's also a lot of excellent financial blogs; I like Get Rich Slowly and My Money Blog. GRS recently had a metapost that listed all their "basic financial literacy" posts here.
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